Innovate: Movers and Shapers for week of Feb. 14

Feb. 14, 2013

• The Helen Day Art Center in Stowe has hired Sarah Beggs as education coordinator. The Art Center offers more than 30 classes and workshops every year. giving exhibit tours to hundreds of students. Beggs is an experienced organizer of community arts programming and museum tours.

• Judy Ashley has joined the board of the Vermont Public Health Association. Ashley has served as the district director for the Vermont Department of Health St. Albans District Office since 1999. She recently completed her term on the board of directors for the Northwester Medical Center, serving for two years as board president.

• Donald Woodworth III, who joined the Burlington law firm Merritt & Merritt & Moulton in 2012, has recently been admitted to the Vermont bar. Woodworth previously worked at Holme Roberts & Owen LLP in Denver, where he specialized in general corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.

• Five directors of Paul Frank + Collins law firm in Burlington have received individual recognition as being “local litigation stars” in the 2013 edition of Benchmark Litigation: S. Crocker Bennett II, Robert Cain, Robert DiPalma, John Sartore and Nolan Burkhouse. In addition, Paul Frank + Collins was recognized as being among the highest recommended law firms in Vermont.

• The Vermont & New Hampshire Upper Valley Region of the America Red Cross has hired Suzanne Johnson as its major gifts officer. In her new role, Johnson will be responsible for engaging potential donors in an effort to broaden the organization’s financial base, allowing it to advance its humanitarian mission in Vermont and New Hampshire’s Upper Valley.

• Walter Judge Jr., an attorney at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC in Burlington, was re-elected by his peers in the Vermont Bar Association to serve a third two-year term on the Vermont Judicial Nominating Board. Judge’s term will expire in 2015. The board is charged with establishing criteria and standards for the nomination of qualified candidates for the state judiciary, and with screening and nominating candidates to fill judicial vacancies.

• City Market, Onion River Co-op in Burlington has hired Rod Rehwinkel as its prepared foods manager. As the owner of Clear Culinary Consulting, Rehwinkel is well-versed in developing menus and continuing to strengthen the local food system through relationships with local farms, according to City Market.

• Carl Lisman and E. William Leckerling of Lisman Leckerling, PC, have been named to the Vermont Super Lawyers list as two of the top attorneys in Vermont for 2012 Lisman is acknowledged for his practice areas of real estate and business litigation. Leckerling is acknowledged in his practice areas of employment and labor, medical malpractice and construction litigation.